A Ballad of Dreamland (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
I hid my heart in a nest of roses,Out of the sun's way, hidden apart;In a softer bed than the ...
I hid my heart in a nest of roses,Out of the sun's way, hidden apart;In a softer bed than the ...
PART IIt is an hour before the hour of dawn. Set in mine hand my staff and leave me ...
Is it so, that the sword is broken, Our sword, that was halfway drawn?Is it so, that the light ...
We mix from many lands, We march for very far; In hearts and lips ...
Between the green bud and the redYouth sat and sang by Time, and shed From eyes and tresses flowers ...
Here, down between the dusty trees, At this lank edge of haggard wood,Women with labour-loosened knees, With gaunt ...
A faint sea without wind or sun;A sky like flameless vapour dun; A valley like an unsealed graveThat no ...
THERE is an end of joy and sorrow;Peace all day long, all night, all morrow, But never a time ...
Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear,Wind of swift change, and clouds and hours that veerAs the ...
In a vision Liberty stood By the childless charm-stricken bedWhere, barren of glory and good,Knowing nought if she would ...
I.Gone, O gentle heart and true, Friend of hopes foregone,Hopes and hopeful days with you Gone? Days ...
Take, since you bade it should bear, These, of the seed of your sowing, Blossom or berry ...
Songs light as these may sound, though deep and strongThe heart spake through them, scarce should hope to pleaseEars tuned ...
Love lies bleeding in the bed whereoverRoses lean with smiling mouths or pleading:Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove ...
Child of two strong nations, heirBorn of high-souled hope that smiled,Seeing for each brought forth a fair Child,By thy ...
Here, down between the dusty trees, At this lank edge of haggard wood, Women with labour-loosened knees, With gaunt backs ...
Maiden most beautiful, mother most bountiful, lady of lands, Queen and republican, crowned of the centuries whose years are thy ...
Take, since you bade it should bear, These, of the seed of your sowing, Blossom or berry or weed. Sweet ...
I Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star Take heart in heaven from eastward, while the west, Fulfilled of watery ...
In a vision Liberty stood By the childless charm-stricken bed Where, barren of glory and good, Knowing nought if she ...
Between the wave-ridge and the strand I let you forth in sight of land, Songs that with storm-crossed wings and ...
I -- In Church Thou whose birth on earth Angels sang to men, While thy stars made mirth, Saviour, at ...
Far beyond the sunrise and the sunset rises Heaven, with worlds on worlds that lighten and respond: Thought can see ...
Beneath the shadow of dawn's aërial cope, With eyes enkindled as the sun's own sphere, Hope from the front of ...
Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear, Wind of swift change, and clouds and hours that veer ...
I. Gone, O gentle heart and true, Friend of hopes foregone, Hopes and hopeful days with you Gone? Days of ...
We mix from many lands, We march for very far; In hearts and lips and hands Our staffs and weapons ...
One of twain, twin-born with flowers that waken, Now hath passed from sense of sun and rain: Wind from off ...
The trumpets of the four winds of the world From the ends of the earth blow battle; the night heaves, ...
Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's ...
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